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American Noir: Arizona anti-Immigrant Law penned by Private Prison Industry, says NPR
NPR reports that Arizona’s fascist immigration law was cooked up and in large part written by the private prison industry in the state, which saw […]
Mission Impossible: Iraq
Mission Impossible: Government Formation Producer and screenwriter: The United States Starring: Nuri al-Maliki, Iyad Allawi, Ammar al-Hakim, Salih al-Mutlak, Muqtada al-Sadr, Tariq al-Hashimi Sound and […]
Scary Tea Party Compilation
You can’t make this stuff up. Vote Sanity suggests that however angry you might be about the current situation, it is important that you vote […]
Obama fails to Galvanize the Youth on Daily Show
President Obama came on Jon Stewart’s Daily show on Wednesday. This was the president’s chance to rally the youth, who typically don’t vote in midterms. […]
Israeli extremists Provoke Clashes in Umm al-Fahm
The extremist “Our Land of Israel” group that opposes any negotiations with Arabs or relinquishing of conquered territory staged a provocative march Wednesday in Umm […]
On Beating Uppity Liberal Women: Afghanistan and Kentucky
Afghanistan style (Taliban version): American style (Tea Party version): For more on woman-stomper Tim Profitt and Rand Paul see HuffPo. The episode puts Paul’s youthful […]
A North-South Global Climate War?
This looks to me like a sort of north-south global war, with the North inflicting profound damage on the South: Here are carbon dioxide emissions […]
Suzuki: Our Global Economy is not Sustainable
I had the pleasure of hearing biologist David Suzuki lecture at the Sydney Opera House on Sunday night during my recent short trip to Australia. […]
Karzai and the Iranian Slush Pile
The revelation that Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai receives millions in influence peddling payments from Iran is full of ironies. It demonstrates that the US and […]